To receive regular news, go to "@gossippsychotic" to get updates from various other gossip websites such as "Downtown Chatter" or "Royal Gossip Psychotic" and end up reading all about all sorts of peccadilloes.

I read about Wallace and apparently she was hounded by Edward to marry him and hse was supposedly happy with her second husband. I wonder if something might have been prevented if Queen Mary had talked to Wallace heart to heart about possibly ending this, that Edward might have successfully been shoved off.

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To receive regular news, go to "@gossippsychotic" to get updates from various other gossip websites such as "Downtown Chatter" or "Royal Gossip Psychotic" and end up reading all about all sorts of peccadilloes.

I read a biography about her and it seemed like Wallis Simpson was a woman whose ambition was quite materialistic and was quite power-driven. She was not obliged to divorce her husband and accept the Prince's requests if what you read Kuei Fei is true.She was known to be the one who was wearing the pants in the relationship so I guess she played her part quite well to make Edward madly in love with her...enough to even renounce his throne. I guess they expected Germany would win the war and then they would have the throne of England back.

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Even if you are in a minority of one. The truth is still the truth. An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody will see it. Mahatma Gandi

Say what you will, it's a fascinating piece of history and I find myself reading about it from time to time in an effort to get a handle on that period of time, which I find very interesting. I don't know if she was ghastly or not; I'm not quite that old, nor have I ever met her, but she's definitely a person of interest.

I don't see that much of a comparison with Pipster, either. Pippa has a kind of American Indian look about her, to me. But, there is a similarity that they're both rather mannish. That's about it. Pippa certainly doesn't have the style Wallis had, and she did.

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\"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.\" Thomas Jefferson

An exploration of former archbishop of Canterbury Cosmo Gordon Lang's bid to remove the monarch on the grounds that his love for the twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson made a mockery of the Crown. Lang worked with Geoffrey Dawson, editor of The Times, and other establishment figures to bring pressure on prime minister Stanley Baldwin to force an abdication, but his public criticism of Edward eventually backfired and his efforts to make the country a more religious place were unsuccessful. Documentary featuring dramatic reconstructions with David Calder.

Did anyone see this documentary? It was chilling and clearly showed how the establishment and courtiers can get rid of someone they don't want. It also showed how powerless their victim can be even if loved by the people They were Machiavellian in their determination to oust the King. William should take note